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Monday, March 28, 2011

A Tragic Loss

For decades it has has been the sole voice railing against mainstream parenting magazines who promote unacceptable images of motherhood: deeply imperfect moms who leave their kids from time to time, spend money on non organic\AP baby gear, and care more about themselves than they do their kids, by birthing them in hospitals and stabbing them with poisonous vaccinations for the sake of a day out.

These magazines do NOT challenge their readers to consciously make educated parenting decisions by looking at risk factors and seeing which one they react to instinctively with fear, regardless of where the decimal point is.

Yes, a sad sad time for all of us moms who actually care about our children, and all things nature in parenting.

Inexplicably some readers have had a muted, almost indifferent response to the demise of a national treasure on the magazines website....(from the comments)

"I feel like a part of my own identity has been taken away from me….."

"This method of discontinuing the magazine is like divorcing a partner one has had for decades without even talking about it first!"

"Why would they do this to us\WHY?WHY?WHY?"

"...….the searing pain in my heart will not leave."

"I feel like an abandoned child!"

Other mothers, older, wiser, naturaler know that such a reserved response does not do the grief and pain justice.

Far be it for me to judge, but I will offer that true Mamas didn't really ever need a magazine anyway. Mothering might have spoken to the masses of wanna-be's, but some of us already knew all that innately. Just sayin'

I will be lighting a candle at 3:03am (because it kinda' looks like "mom" sideways) every morning until Mothering magazine comes back to save me from this dark hole of just being a mother without a magazine. All of you, my beloved sistren, should join me, or else you obviously hate motherhood!